<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Sci-Tech - Newslocker]]></title><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/rss/" /><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><description><![CDATA[Find your latest Sci-Tech news with just one click. Don't miss out on anything happening!]]></description><language>en-uk</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:10:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Scammers impersonate FBI on social media, prey on crime victims]]></title><description><![CDATA[Real FBI agents won't slide into your DMs and offer to help you recover stolen funds. The bureau's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) updated an earlier warning on Monday about scammers impersonating the agency online, saying fraudsters continue to use the scheme "to deceive and revictimize individuals." According to IC3, there are two different schemes being used to target cybercrime victims, both directly and by soliciting them to report incidents. In the first scheme, IC3 said scammers cre]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scammers-impersonate-fbi-on-social-media-prey-on-crime-victims/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/scammers-impersonate-fbi-on-social-media-prey-on-crime-victims/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time Traveler claiming to be from the year 2045 delivers alarming predictions for the next four years]]></title><description><![CDATA[A self-proclaimed time traveler has revealed the true origins of UFO sightings and who will allegedly be the last president in US history.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/time-traveler-claiming-to-be-from-the-year-2045-delivers-alarming-predictions-for-the-next-four-years/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/time-traveler-claiming-to-be-from-the-year-2045-delivers-alarming-predictions-for-the-next-four-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nothing can ruin the end of a week like finding out that all of the websites and hosted email you&rsquo;re responsible for are offline, which is exactly what happened to Christopher Bradbury and his web design and development firm, Digital Takumi last week. AWS has since resolved the situation, but Bradbury's mistakes can serve as a useful lesson to others of what not to do. As Bradbury explained to The Register in an email, he noticed last Thursday, July 16, that all the websites and Google Wor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/aws-customer-learns-the-hard-way-how-even-the-smallest-oversight-can-be-mission-critical/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/aws-customer-learns-the-hard-way-how-even-the-smallest-oversight-can-be-mission-critical/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI datacenters wreak havoc on the power grid under normal circumstances, so what happens if a bad actor controls all the GPUs and wants to cause harm? Cybersecurity researchers in China have devised a way for malicious tenants to attack their infrastructure provider, potentially causing blackouts or damaging equipment. The attack, dubbed Bit2Watt, imagines an adversary masquerading as a legitimate cloud tenant to launch GPU workloads that have the potential to damage datacenters and supporting e]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/malicious-cloud-customers-can-bring-down-the-power-grid/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/malicious-cloud-customers-can-bring-down-the-power-grid/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frontier LLMs couldn't help Hugging Face fight off evil agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apparently, being a leading destination for AI development doesn't mean AI will bail you out. AI agents broke into Hugging Face's production infrastructure, but commercial LLM guardrails blocked the forensic investigation, forcing it to turn to a Chinese open-weight model instead. The intrusion, &ldquo;driven, end to end, by an autonomous AI agent system,&rdquo; compromised a &ldquo;limited set&rdquo; of Hugging Face&rsquo;s internal datasets and &ldquo;several&rdquo; credentials used by its ser]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/frontier-llms-couldnt-help-hugging-face-fight-off-evil-agents/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/frontier-llms-couldnt-help-hugging-face-fight-off-evil-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Multiple East Coast cities told to prepare NOW as tornado threat looms TOMORROW]]></title><description><![CDATA[Officials have issued a warning to millions of Americans facing the threat of tornadoes as a volatile storm system bears down on the eastern US.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/multiple-east-coast-cities-told-to-prepare-now-as-tornado-threat-looms-tomorrow/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/multiple-east-coast-cities-told-to-prepare-now-as-tornado-threat-looms-tomorrow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Document Foundation says Microsoft's file formats keep users on a short leash]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Document Foundation (TDF) has criticized proprietary file formats and the lock-in they create, with Microsoft's ubiquitous Office formats drawing particular scrutiny. TDF would doubtless welcome a world where everyone used LibreOffice or another open equivalent, yet the reality is that Microsoft's productivity tools still dominate the office software market. However that shouldn't be a problem. Files are interchangeable these days, right? Office uses the Office Open XML (OOXML) format, so sw]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-document-foundation-says-microsofts-file-formats-keep-users-on-a-short-leash/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/the-document-foundation-says-microsofts-file-formats-keep-users-on-a-short-leash/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dark matter could resonate through a hidden FIFTH dimension, scientists claim]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dark matter is already one of the strangest substances in the universe, but a new study suggests this elusive material could be even weirder than we thought.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/dark-matter-could-resonate-through-a-hidden-fifth-dimension-scientists-claim/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/dark-matter-could-resonate-through-a-hidden-fifth-dimension-scientists-claim/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Milk shortages loom across America after devastating cyberattack halts Fairlife production]]></title><description><![CDATA[A billion-dollar milk company, serving millions of Americans each year, has been forced to halt production following a devastating cyberattack.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/milk-shortages-loom-across-america-after-devastating-cyberattack-halts-fairlife-production/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/milk-shortages-loom-across-america-after-devastating-cyberattack-halts-fairlife-production/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft 365 calendars become spy drop boxes in HOLLOWGRAPH campaign]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft 365 calendars have become the latest hiding place for espionage malware, with attackers stashing commands and stolen files inside appointments dated 24 years into the future. Researchers at Group-IB say they've uncovered a malware component they call HOLLOWGRAPH that swaps the usual command-and-control server for something rather less conspicuous &ndash; a compromised Microsoft 365 calendar. Instead of reaching out to attacker-controlled infrastructure for instructions, the implant rum]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-365-calendars-become-spy-drop-boxes-in-hollowgraph-campaign/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/microsoft-365-calendars-become-spy-drop-boxes-in-hollowgraph-campaign/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moon landing conspiracies are reignited online on the 57th anniversary of Apollo 11 - as experts reveal three pieces of evidence that prove NASA's lunar missions were real]]></title><description><![CDATA[Moon landing conspiracies have been reignited online once again, as NASA celebrates the 57th anniversary of Apollo 11.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/moon-landing-conspiracies-are-reignited-online-on-the-57th-anniversary-of-apollo-11-as-experts-reveal-three-pieces-of-evidence-that-prove-nasas-lunar-missions-were-real/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/moon-landing-conspiracies-are-reignited-online-on-the-57th-anniversary-of-apollo-11-as-experts-reveal-three-pieces-of-evidence-that-prove-nasas-lunar-missions-were-real/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's favorite milk forced to halt production after cyberattack sparking fears of nationwide shortages]]></title><description><![CDATA[A billion-dollar milk company, serving millions of Americans each year, has been forced to halt production following a devastating cyberattack.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/americas-favorite-milk-forced-to-halt-production-after-cyberattack-sparking-fears-of-nationwide-shortages/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/americas-favorite-milk-forced-to-halt-production-after-cyberattack-sparking-fears-of-nationwide-shortages/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tropical Storm Bertha to form near US coast in just HOURS as millions brace for direct hit]]></title><description><![CDATA[A tropical storm developing near multiple US states is expected to make landfall this week and bring life-threatening conditions to millions.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/tropical-storm-bertha-to-form-near-us-coast-in-just-hours-as-millions-brace-for-direct-hit/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/tropical-storm-bertha-to-form-near-us-coast-in-just-hours-as-millions-brace-for-direct-hit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Windows Server Update Services buckle under Microsoft's metadata mountain]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft's aging Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) has hit "severe degradation," leaving some organizations facing painfully slow synchronizations or timeouts when fetching updates. According to Microsoft, "a buildup of publishing metadata" has meant that "organizations might experience increased synchronization times or sync operation timeouts on WSUS servers." We're told the problem isn't related to the recent Patch Tuesday update, but Microsoft noted "heightened impact observed starting]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/windows-server-update-services-buckle-under-microsofts-metadata-mountain/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/windows-server-update-services-buckle-under-microsofts-metadata-mountain/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's favorite milk forced to halt production after devastating cyberattack]]></title><description><![CDATA[A billion-dollar milk company, serving millions of Americans each year, has been forced to halt production following a devastating cyberattack.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/americas-favorite-milk-forced-to-halt-production-after-devastating-cyberattack/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/americas-favorite-milk-forced-to-halt-production-after-devastating-cyberattack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU's AI labeling rules take effect next month]]></title><description><![CDATA[From August 2, providers of AI systems in the EU will have to tell people when they are interacting with a machine and add machine-readable marks to AI-generated or manipulated content under new transparency rules. Launching guidance ahead of the deadline, Henna Virkkunen, European Commission executive vice-president for tech sovereignty, security and democracy, said: "The Commission supports the smooth and effective application of the AI Act to make AI systems interacting with people such as ch]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eus-ai-labeling-rules-take-effect-next-month/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/eus-ai-labeling-rules-take-effect-next-month/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watching the world burn as all the money flows into a multitrillion-dollar Magic 8 Ball]]></title><description><![CDATA[KETTLE Your host Brandon Vigliarolo has been breathing in wildfire smoke from Canada for the past few days, which really has him thinking about whether all those AI datacenters building gas turbines and contributing to climate change is really worth it. You can listen to the latest episode of The Kettle right here on this page, as well as on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube where you can subscribe to get notified of the latest episode. Luckily for us, CNBC technology and climate reporter Lora Ko]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/watching-the-world-burn-as-all-the-money-flows-into-a-multitrillion-dollar-magic-8-ball/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/watching-the-world-burn-as-all-the-money-flows-into-a-multitrillion-dollar-magic-8-ball/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MMAI! Watch the moment a robot is DECAPITATED during a brutal humanoid cage fight - yet keeps fighting]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shocking footage has emerged from China , showing two humanoids battling it out in a mixed martial arts (MMA) fight.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mmai-watch-the-moment-a-robot-is-decapitated-during-a-brutal-humanoid-cage-fight-yet-keeps-fighting/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/mmai-watch-the-moment-a-robot-is-decapitated-during-a-brutal-humanoid-cage-fight-yet-keeps-fighting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Potentially hazardous' asteroid will be visible to 90% of Earth's population during an 'ultra close' flyby, new maps reveal]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 'potentially hazardous' asteroid will be visible with the naked eye for 90 per cent of the world's population, scientists have revealed.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/potentially-hazardous-asteroid-will-be-visible-to-90-of-earths-population-during-an-ultra-close-flyby-new-maps-reveal/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/potentially-hazardous-asteroid-will-be-visible-to-90-of-earths-population-during-an-ultra-close-flyby-new-maps-reveal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infosec expert: Paidwork users' data pwned after 23M-record database dumped online]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 23 million people who signed up to earn money from online gigs have allegedly had their personal and financial information spilled onto the internet following a breach of microtask platform Paidwork. The incident was added to Troy Hunt's Have I Been Pwned site after a database allegedly stolen from Paidwork was publicly released earlier this month. According to the breach notification service, the leak contains data on 23,272,765 users and traces back to an intrusion in March. The data]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/infosec-expert-paidwork-users-data-pwned-after-23m-record-database-dumped-online/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/infosec-expert-paidwork-users-data-pwned-after-23m-record-database-dumped-online/</guid></item></channel></rss>